Thanks for the information. I'm looking forward to it. On Dec 20, 2007 12:51 PM, <boeyms-at-large@boeyms.info> wrote:

Hi Ryan and js,

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MacPorts 1.6 should still support Panther. I believe someone will be making a disk image soon. I don't know why the compile is failing for you.

Juan and I are working on the disk image. js, I got the same error as you did when attempting to build MacPorts 1.6 on Panther, and a fix is in the pipeline. (For anybody whose interested in the technical details, the problem is described below [1].)

We're hoping it'll be ready in the next 24 hours, as we know what we need to fix; the only issue to find a sufficiently elegant way to do it so that it doesn't surface in future.

Given this delay in getting it to work for 10.3, do either of you (or anybody else!) think we should post an announcement somewhere, and if so, where? In future, of course, I think we need to tighten up our release engineering process so this doesn't happen again; I'll talk to Juan about it when I catch him next.

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Maun Suang

[1] The problem is the sqlite3.h header file is not found when compiling src/cregistry/registry.c. This problem doesn't surface on Tiger or later, because it /usr/include/sqlite3.h is found (the include flags are currently "-I.. -I. -I/usr/include"), but this file doesn't exist on Panther. Since we go on to link against a static library built from the included sqlite-3.1.3 source, we should really include src/sqlite-3.1.3/sqlite3.h on all platforms. I don't know if we'd face any problems with upgrading to the latest stable sqlite3 in our source distribution.